This survey is being undertaken as part of my main study toward PhD at Victoria University Wellington. The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of health communications regarding binge drinking prevention. Victoria University of Wellington ethics approval has been obtained for this research (Ref: 21449).

The results from this study will improve understanding of social marketers and public health administrators to motivate and prevent people from undertaking binge drinking.

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Outward Bound is New Zealand’s leading organisation for showing people their full potential through outdoor challenge and adventure. Discover your full potential through a life-changing adventure in the outdoors. Push your limits and challenge yourself in a whole new way. Together with your team, you’ll tramp, climb, kayak, run and sail your way through some of the most amazing places in New Zealand, forming life-long friendships along the way.

If you would like to apply for one of the three scholarships up for grabs, please download the application form from the UCSA Facebook post, email for the application form from Ee-Li Hong, the UCSA Advocacy & Welfare Manager, or come and grab a copy from Ee-Li at UCSA.

Normally this course is $4100 but with the UCSA scholarship it could be all yours for only $500. (NB: fees do not include travel to/from Picton and the cost of having a medical completed.)

The course runs over 3 time periods, 5-25 June, 4-24 July and 31 July-20 August. We will let you know by Tuesday the 22nd of March if you are the lucky punter. You will need to pay the $500 by the 7th of April to take up the scholarship.

All submissions need to be in with Ee-Li by 9am Friday 4 March 2016, and if you have any further questions please address them to ee-li.hong@ucsa.org.nz.

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Roimata is the name given to a sculpture designed by Māori artist Riki Manuel (Ngāti Porou) to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake on 22 February 2011. It was unveiled at a special ceremony on that date in 2018, and tells a story of remembrance.

To Māori, the upside down koru represents death, in keeping with a memorial to those who lost their lives in the February earthquake of 2011.

The surface is undulated to represent Ōtakaro the river Avon, onto which the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch, throw flowers each year in memory of that fateful day. The bronze flowers on the surface depict this ritual.

The sculpture sits at the Clyde Road end of University Drive, a short distance from the Recreation Centre bridge over Ōtakaro where those who attended the unveiling carried out this ritual by throwing fresh flowers onto the river to created a spiritual link with the commemorative service being held later that day in the city.

Roimata, will remain on our campus as a permanent reminder of the earthquakes, and as a focus each year for our remembrance, the loss and suffering of our University community, the contribution they made afterwards, and what the University has become since.